Educational technologies are increasingly embedded in early childhood learning environments, from preschool through the first years of primary school and ...

What is cognitive development? Expert Dr Samantha Durrant answers parents' questions around this tricky subject, and how it ...

In the ever-evolving landscape of education, it is important to understand how students think and learn so as to be able to teach effectively. Jean Piaget, a Swiss psychologist, profoundly impacted ...

Psychology graduate students with interests in Cognition or Cognitive Development engage in doctoral training that promotes expertise in the theories, current knowledge, and research paradigms in ...

Research on infant thinking suggests that babies are more complex thinkers than was once believed. There is now evidence that, by the end of their first year, children are capable of logical reasoning ...

The developmental psychologist and genetic epistemologist, Jean Piaget, investigated the cognitive development of children. He identified four stages from the sensorimotor period, culminating at 2 ...

In a recent study published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, researchers evaluated how fundamental environmental supports, encapsulated as a thrive factor (T-factor), during the first year of life ...

During childhood and adolescence, children’s social environments shape their cognitive development. Children exposed to multiple adversities in their social environment are more likely to have poorer ...

Attention is a computation applied to competing environmental information to bias the selection of one option and avoid distraction from alternative inputs. Studying the development of visual ...

Childhood adversities have distinct effects on mental health and cognitive development, necessitating a nuanced understanding beyond the traditional adverse childhood experiences framework. The study ...

Our goal at the Cognitive Development Center is to understand thinking and how it changes with development. We work with infants, children, and adolescents to explore the development of executive ...

The first few years of a child’s life is critical to their overall development, so that’s why many parents are concerned with making sure their child develops the cognitive abilities they need early ...